eunions Class of 1985 Photo: Curtis Salonick Ann Marie Hendrzak and Faith Jabers M<strong>at</strong>zoni Left to right, front row: Victoria Baran, Faith Jabers M<strong>at</strong>zoni, Ann Marie Hendrzak; second row: Toni Pitman, Corine Leoni Treslar, Anthony Andrews, Liesl (Ann) Harder Kielp, Emily Bittenbender. Photo: Curtis Salonick Anthony Andrews and Liesl (Ann) Harder Kielp Toni Pitman, Emily Bittenbender, Jeffrey M<strong>at</strong>zoni, Faith Jabers M<strong>at</strong>zoni and Ann Marie Hendrzak Photo: Curtis Salonick 34
C l a s s N o t e s Class Notes printed on the following pages represent news sent to us by August 15, 2010, with the exception of several obits. Please send hard copy news and photos to: Class Notes The Alumni Office <strong>Wyoming</strong> <strong>Sem</strong>inary 201 North Sprague Avenue Kingston, Pa. 18704 Digital news and images can be e-mailed to: alumni@wyomingseminary.org. Digital images will reproduce better if they have a resolution of <strong>at</strong> least 200 dpi and are <strong>at</strong> least 4 inches wide. 1941 MARJORIE TAITE AUSTIN, Steambo<strong>at</strong> Springs, Colo., writes, My time <strong>at</strong> <strong>Wyoming</strong> <strong>Sem</strong>inary was spent as a 7-day boarder. My favorite professor was Leroy Bugbee and my favorite administr<strong>at</strong>or was Dean Adams. My UN-favorite things were wearing h<strong>at</strong>s, stockings, and skirts off campus and having only two weekends away <strong>at</strong> my grandmother’s farm in Tunkhannock. My work duty was to clean the girls’ gym and I lost one study hall each day to work in the library. Let’s see, <strong>Sem</strong> owes me ___?___ study halls! The only meal we were allowed to miss was lunch. The second floor had no b<strong>at</strong>hrooms so we had to go up to the third floor. Lights were out <strong>at</strong> 10 PM and study hall was from 8 PM to 9:45 PM. But we liked most everyone and there was a respect and consider<strong>at</strong>ion which I hope is still there. My gre<strong>at</strong> grandparents met <strong>at</strong> <strong>Wyoming</strong> <strong>Sem</strong>inary. They were members of one of the first classes-- Benjamin Manning Hall who lived on a farm in Tunkhannock and Asen<strong>at</strong>h De Witt who lived on a farm in West Pittston. He walked from Kingston to West Pittston to ask her to marry him. He walked back because he had no money for a horse and carriage. He was l<strong>at</strong>e for school the next day and worried th<strong>at</strong> Dr. Sprague would punish him. I was born on th<strong>at</strong> farm. My f<strong>at</strong>her Manning Taite inherited it. I started <strong>at</strong> Goucher and left there to join SPARS U.S. Coast Guard-W.R. Our first WWII training was in Palm Beach, Fla.! I continued my studies <strong>at</strong> the University of Virginia where women were allowed to study only nursing, educ<strong>at</strong>ion or <strong>at</strong>tend gradu<strong>at</strong>e school. I didn’t want nursing so I took educ<strong>at</strong>ion and th<strong>at</strong>’s how I became a teacher. I married and had two children, Robert and Jayne, and my husband Captain W.H. Austin Jr. was in the school of engineering. Wh<strong>at</strong> do I think of so-called prep schools? I was <strong>at</strong> <strong>Sem</strong> four years. My f<strong>at</strong>her was a gradu<strong>at</strong>e of the Peddie ’14. My brother spent 4 years <strong>at</strong> St Bernard’s in N.J. My son <strong>at</strong>tended Episcopal Academy in Merion, where I taught for 10 years, and my daughter went to the Shipley School. My son-in-law was the Head of School <strong>at</strong> Lowell Whitman School in Steambo<strong>at</strong> Springs, Colo. My daughter and her husband gradu<strong>at</strong>ed from The George School, a Quaker school in Newtown Pa. I have two grandchildren, a girl and a boy. Both gradu<strong>at</strong>ed from the University of Virginia. I also have four gre<strong>at</strong>-grandchildren. Go WYO! MTA 1944 KAY JOHNSON EDGERTON and BOB EDGERTON ’42, Dallas, celebr<strong>at</strong>ed their 60th wedding anniversary on June 24 <strong>at</strong> a party given by their sons ROBERT EDGERTON JR. ’69 and Ritchie Edgerton. Many members of ’42, ’44 and other <strong>Sem</strong> classes were in <strong>at</strong>tendance. 1950 JOEL “JIM” GOLDSTEIN, Bryn Mawr, writes, I’m still seeing p<strong>at</strong>ients although I get to my office an hour l<strong>at</strong>er and come home an hour earlier. I’m also still teaching residents <strong>at</strong> Drexel College of Medicine and <strong>at</strong> the Psychoanalytic Institute. We’re doing pretty much wh<strong>at</strong> we were doing on our 50th. Debby is retired from pedi<strong>at</strong>rics, but is doing a lot of work for the College of Physicians and is president of the Franklin Inn Club – a literary club. (Miss Brown never did approve of dashes.) Paul, our son, is an environmental biologist, working in Massachusetts. I wish you well and hope you stay healthy. 1951 HAROLD “HAL” C.W. BIRTH, Santa Monica, Calif., writes, I met my wife, Shirley Lovelace, <strong>at</strong> the US Embassy in London where she was employed in 1968. We have two living children, Cynthia and Victoria. Bradley (<strong>Sem</strong> class of ’76) lost his b<strong>at</strong>tle with cancer in 2009. We have two grandsons, Bradley and Alexander Birth, living in Virginia. I entered the US Air Force as an enlisted Avi<strong>at</strong>ion Cadet in 1953. After two years of training, I was commissioned a 2 nd lieutenant and jet pilot. My next two duty assignments were in 18 th Air Force then in 12 th Air Force Headquarters. My first oper<strong>at</strong>ional assignment was <strong>at</strong> RAF Alconbury, England flying secret reconnaissance missions over Europe in a Douglas B-66 aircraft during the Cold War. My return to the US was short as I was sent to Vietnam on classified orders with a Diplom<strong>at</strong>ic Passport to fly military missions over North Vietnam. After flying 84 comb<strong>at</strong> missions my one year tour was complete and I was transferred back to RAF Alconbury England and trained in the new Douglas RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance aircraft. After I completed my four year tour flying classified missions in Europe I received a change of command to the Str<strong>at</strong>egic Air Command flying the Boeing B-52 Str<strong>at</strong>ofortress <strong>at</strong> Grand Forks AFB ND. As a brand new crew we quickly earned a top overall lead crew rank making us eligible for an Arc light tour of duty in Vietnam. As a lead Aircraft Commander, I led a cell of three B-52’s over targets in Vietnam, dropping a total of 90 tons of bombs on each of my next 58 comb<strong>at</strong> missions. My war record includes: 142 comb<strong>at</strong> missions over Vietnam The Distinguished Flying Cross The Meritorious Service Medal The Air Medal with 9 Oak Leaf Clusters After retiring from the USAF, I gained employment as a pilot instructor <strong>at</strong> Continental Airlines. I quickly rose to Lead Instructor on the Boeing 737 followed by Lead Instructor on the Boeing 747. After receiving many accolades in innov<strong>at</strong>ive pilot training techniques from classroom computer based facilit<strong>at</strong>or to simul<strong>at</strong>or training instructor, I retired with 25 years of full time employment. Following my retirement I was called upon to do part time training <strong>at</strong> Continental for four more years. I now remain active as President/CEO of Princeton Villas Homeowners Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, Inc in Santa Monica, Calif. JOHN B. FASSETT, Fort Meyers, Fla., moved to Ft. Meyers in 1960 and has practiced law there for over 50 years. Shortly after moving there, he married Gloria A. Ankers of South Bend, Ind. They have two daughters: Jane, an <strong>at</strong>torney in Alamo, California, and Anne, who was employed as a counselor with the Department of Juvenile Justice of the St<strong>at</strong>e of Florida until her untimely de<strong>at</strong>h from a stroke <strong>at</strong> age 33 in 1999. John is a member of the St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Ft. Meyers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Fort Meyers Community Concert Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. He is past director of the Prince Gardner Company, an origin<strong>at</strong>or, past president and member of the Board of Directors or Southwest Florida Self Help Housing, Inc., past chairman of Lee County Muscular Dystrophy Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, past secretary and current Vice President of the Fort Myers Optimist Club and a member of the organiz<strong>at</strong>ion’s Board of Directors for over 40 years. Mr. Fassett was president of the Lee County Associ<strong>at</strong>ion for Retarded Citizens from 1980-1984. He helped Barbara Mann cre<strong>at</strong>e the Lee County Alliance of the Arts and served on its Board of Directors for years. He is a former Municipal Judge, being sworn in by the County Clerk in 1964 and in th<strong>at</strong> capacity served as Director of the St<strong>at</strong>e of Florida Municipal Judges Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. All municipal judges, in every city in Florida, were retired in 1972 and the courts were merged into County 35
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